{"id":43439,"date":"2018-11-02T12:18:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T10:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistsouthafrica.com\/?p=43439"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:18:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T10:18:59","slug":"earlybird-educare-new-career-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistsouthafrica.com\/earlybird-educare-new-career-opportunity.html","title":{"rendered":"Earlybird Educare New Career Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlybird is a social enterprise that seeks to address the shortage of high-quality Early Childhood Development (ECD) services in South Africa by opening a network of workplace- and community-based educare centres across the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title: Chief Financial Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Location:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cape Town<\/li>\n<li>Johannesburg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Responsibilities:<\/p>\n<p>Financial Management, Reporting, and Planning<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work with the CEO on strategy, scenario planning, and long-term projections<\/li>\n<li>Prepare an annual budget in collaboration with the CEO<\/li>\n<li>Prepare quarterly management accounts, including financial and narrative information<\/li>\n<li>Track and comply with grant reporting requirements for funds received from donors<\/li>\n<li>Work with the CEO and Chief Academic Officer to develop and implement an efficient system for franchisee administrative record-keeping, bookkeeping, and reporting<\/li>\n<li>Supervise our outsourced accounting service provider (currently House of Growth), which captures information in Xero and runs payroll for the company<\/li>\n<li>Manage trade payables and invoicing<\/li>\n<li>Maintain the general ledger and loading payments for release on internet banking<\/li>\n<li>Manage cash flows and bank accounts, including cash forecasting<\/li>\n<li>Manage all tax and compliance related matters i.e. CIPC, VAT, PAYE, Income Tax, NPO reporting requirements, Public Benefit Activity tracking and reporting<\/li>\n<li>Maintain a lean operating cost environment<\/li>\n<li>Oversee and managing the annual external audit<\/li>\n<li>Draft annual financial statements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Corporate partnerships<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plan, develop, and running Earlybird\u2019s strategy for identifying and engaging potential corporate partners (businesses which wish to include our on-site educare offering as part of their employee wellness package)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Engage\u2019 includes pitching (together with our CEO) our offering at high-level management meetings with partner corporates and going through various costing scenarios with corporate partners, helping to price out services under various conditions<\/li>\n<li>Maintain a detailed database of (potential) partners and tracking progression of engagement for each relationship<\/li>\n<li>Ensure you have an up-to-date understanding of the BEE Codes of Good Practice to quantify the BEE opportunities that exist for potential partners; coordinating with Earlybird\u2019s BEE consultants on more technical BEE questions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Governance and Legal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ensure the organisation\u2019s compliance with the Companies Act and good corporate governance, procedures and protocols<\/li>\n<li>Critically reviewing and updating contract templates for service provision to corporate partners as well as franchise agreements<\/li>\n<li>Liaise with appointed legal firm on all legal matters<\/li>\n<li>Ensure compliance with existing contracts<\/li>\n<li>Assist with legal, tax and governance matters in respect of a potential international expansion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minimum of three years\u2019 experience in a corporate work environment.<\/li>\n<li>B.com Accounting degree or equivalent with accounting, articles and CA(SA) a distinct advantage<\/li>\n<li>Confident speaking with senior executives and government officials<\/li>\n<li>Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple and overlapping deadlines almost exclusively on one\u2019s own<\/li>\n<li>Reliably sets and meets expectations<\/li>\n<li>Willingness and ability to gain a working knowledge of concepts in the fields of early education, innovative finance, and education technology<\/li>\n<li>Personable, reliable, organised, motivated by impactful work<\/li>\n<li>A creative problem-solver who is undaunted by the inevitable challenges that will crop up as we work to break new ground in South Africa\u2019s under-developed Early Childhood Development sector<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Strong communicator, capable of engaging in big-picture strategic thinking as well as detail-oriented implementation to join our management team as a full-time Chief Financial Officer<\/p>\n<p>To apply submit a cover letter and your CV to<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@earlybirdeducare.co.za\">info@earlybirdeducare.co.za<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Application Deadline:\u00a0<\/strong>16th November, 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